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GordyB
Posted: Feb 17 2014, 11:10 AM
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Hi There all

If anyone would like to contribute a story, a comment or a picture for the next exciting edition, they are most welcomed: Send along.

" Don't leave me high and dry" Cats

Best
Gordy :blink:

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Blackcat
Posted: Feb 24 2014, 09:47 PM
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There is an amazing story behind that photograph!
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Warhawk
  Posted: Feb 25 2014, 06:12 PM
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Indeed there was and is!

The PBY-5A is located on a beach off the Strait of Tiran on the Saudi Arabia side of the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba

Source: http://www.artificialowl.net/2009/07/aband...e-50-years.html
But a up to date pic per wing collapse is available on:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33724967@N04/4568529475

Even Google Maps has it logged:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=2...8&t=h&z=18&om=0


Rego was N5593V per 1960 when it was stranded: Ex US Navy Bu No 48397
USN, Contract NOa(s)-464, delivered 12/43 - 31/3/1944:Thirty-one to USAAF as OA-10A

but; we need stories ourselves for the telegraph!


Best
Gordy

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